Category: Science

Fans pose for a photo with an astronaut in the NASA Experience Zone at an NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons

Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when

Scientists are exploring new ways to regain control of overactive nervous systems including humming, tapping on the skin and cold-water immersion.

An expedition of a deep-sea trench near Australia uncovered the eerie sea spider specimens, whose glow may have been chronicled in 19th century documents.

Scientists have a new view of the ground under Los Angeles, and it’s a bit shaky. The 3D model of the Los Angeles basin shows

This brass head depicts an “oba,” or ruler of the Kingdom of Benin. (Image credit: Cleveland Museum of Art (Public Domain)) Quick facts Name: Ancestral

In women’s reproductive years, their brains are exposed to high levels of sex hormones, and their neurons may come to depend on those hormones to

This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026.

With fall now upon us, many of us will be dusting off our binoculars and telescopes ready for the longer nights this season brings. Earlier

Quick facts What it is: The nebula LHA 120-N44 Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellation Dorado When it was shared: Sept. 3

In a multicat household, it’s common to see one cat licking another. When some people see this behavior, known as allogrooming (“allo” means “another individual”)

The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.

Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral’s elusive melting point — and found that

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that hunt for cancer may do a better job when they approach the analysis as if they were a human pathologist